DPET : Desktop Pet Engine

DPET : Desktop Pet Engine

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How to create a DPET using pre-made shimeji PNGs
By Feirlynn
This is a guide-for-dummies (like me) on how to force DPET to accept a premade PNG file that you may have already have from Shimejii or other sources. Please support the original artists! This guide is intended for those who just want a specific pet they find on deviantart, etc., and not to be used commercially
   
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Find the pet that you made or found
For those who want a specific character, I recommend the great artists on DeviantArt, or you can simply google "name of character" + "shimeji file".

Typically you will end up finding a folder filled with different PNG files of the character of your choice, with each titled "shimeji1", "shimeji2", etc.

DO NOT CHANGE THESE NAMES

An example:
Download the base template
Go to the DPET workshop page, and click on the "shimeji resource" button.

This will take you to a google drive, which you just have to download all the contents. Make sure that the contents are placed in a single folder. Easiest way is to just click the drop down button from "Peter the Eevee Shimeji", and download the entire thing. This will download as a zip file in where ever you have your download path set up.

Extract the file to where ever you want, and you should have just a folder titled "Peter the Eevee Shimeji" with conf, img, lib, etc. inside.

Editing the img folder
Open the img folder within the "Peter the Eevee Shimeji" folder, open the "Peter" folder, and you should see, well, a lot of Eevees.

Open up the folder with the PNGs of your desired character, and copy everything inside. Paste the entire thing into the img file, and replace all

















There may or may not be extra photos of eevees leftover, namely, shime1a, shime11a, and so on. These will glitch your character into eevees in some frames.




Easiest way to get rid of it, is just to copy and rename. For example, in the photo above, shime1a is an eevee. Simply copy and paste shime1, and rename the copy "shime1a". You will have to delete the original eevee shime1a before renaming the copy.















The names have to be exactly the same for the program to recognize it. Hence names like "Shime1a", "shime1A", will not work.

Repeat this step for all of the eevees. In my specific case, i replaced shime1a, 11a, 12a, 23a, 31a, 32a, 33a, 45a, 45b, and shimeX.

NOTE: do not touch shime40a, b, c, d and icon, they won't appear at all, but they need to be there for everything to work.

Once you're done, you should have a folder full of JUST your desired character PNGs, except icon and shime40 a-d.
Uploading to DPET
Once everything's done, upload the "Peter the Eevee Shimeji" to DPET, make sure you're linking the folder that directly opens to the conf and img folders.

If all went well, you should have your preview of your character, from there and you can test the different animations it'll have from the dropdown menu. From there just click upload.


(You may have to put something into the "Link" tab to upload, just put whatever)

Enjoy.